The
Product
The worlds first two-wheeled, self-balancing music
player. A.M.P. combines a room-thumping audio
system in its chest, and plays music for you from either
your smartphone, or a direct-attached electronic music
player. A.M.P. has a smartphone application that
allows the user to control the robot and stream music to
it. He has built-in music tracks just for his
personality, so he works right out of the box. He
has a separate remote control that snaps into his back
so that you can control him outside of the phone app
too.

According to The Android at the DEMO Fall 2011
conference "A.M.P. is the worlds coolest Android phone
accessory....and I know Android accessories better than
anyone!"

Oddwerx - Phone Dock

The
Product
The Oddwerx Phone Dock is a dock, is a smartphone with
legs. It is a dock you can snap your Android or
iPhone into, and combined with the appropriate app,
gives your phone personality, and mobility. The
Oddwerx Phone Dock has a sample source API that allows
application developers of existing smartphone apps to
add mobility, and interaction to their existing
smartphone apps.

For more detailed information on the
Oddwerx, they have their own website and blog
www.oddwerx.com

Star Wars Science -
Force Trainer

The
Product
May the force be with you! The Force Trainer by
Uncle Milton actually allows you to control a Jedi
Training Remote with your mind, by tapping into
cutting-edge brainwave technology. Utilizing dry
neural sensor technology, the headset reads and
interprets your brainwaves. The deeper your
concentration and mental focus, the greater your ability
to move the Training Sphere up or down the Training
Tower.

The
Robot
The iconic Google Android comes to life, with a two
wheeled balancing robot, that looks and feels like a
real android. It seemed fitting for him to be a
balancing robot, because although he has legs, he never
uses them, just floats around.

No Android is complete without the his own Android
App, to control him. The app. allows him to be
driven around, speak, play music streamed from the phone
or tablet, change the color of the lighting in his head,
and turn his head from side to side. He also
responds to a variety of voice commands using Google
Cloud services. The app. was created using the
Google App Inventor Beta, and runs on both Android
phones, as well as the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

The "Bug Droid" as we affectionately call him, made
his first appearances at Google IO 2011, and Maker Faire
2011.

In the spirit of constructing useful, service, robots,
bordering on novelty, Marty was constructed with the
idea in-mind, that robots can take mundane tasks and
make them fun. This robot can be constructed from low
cost materials, and in high volume, can be sold quite
cheaply, as a novelty item.

The Robot

Marty was initially designed as a simple
balancing cart that can server drinks at a party or in a
bar. However, as people react to his presence, they
anthropomorphize this balancing robot, and he becomes
the center of attention and conversation. The robot
could be equipped with a beacon following system similar
to the "Follow-Me" robot below, to follow a server
around a bar or restaurant setting, or could just be a
simple static cart for people to set their drinks on
while socializing.

Marty Features:

• Custom designed board stack• Remote control
for driving the unit around
• Slide mode for easily positioning the robot near
tables or patrons
• Powerful 24v drive system
• Anti-slip mat, and rails, for holding plenty
of drinks without spilling
• Large carrying capacity. Can balance with
loads of 100+ pounds.

Service robotics is currently touted as the future of
the consumer robotics industry. With clearly successful
applications of autonomous floor cleaning systems, and
lawn mowers, many consumer electronic companies are
looking to tap into the
multi-billion dollar market for service robots, but
are just lacking a good starting point, nor the
technology.

The Robot

Follow-me is a demonstration of a simple
service robotics, design, that built for the
not-so-simple, everyday task of following you around and
carrying your stuff for you. There are dozens of
specific applications for which this could be used;
helping the elderly or the handicapped, carrying luggage
around the airport, hauling files around an office
environment, moving laundry around a household, or any
other task which involves carrying something around a
structured environment. The robot follows a beacon
which could be sewn into a piece of clothing, or worn on
a belt loop. Whoever has the beacon, the robot
tries to stay within a fixed distance from the wearer,
while avoiding any obstacles that might be in the path
of travel. Like all the other robots, OLogic has
worked on, this robot is totally autonomous, and tries
to make intelligent decisions on what to do next.

Military and civil service robots, are currently the
largest market segment for most robotics manufacturers.
There are many emerging opportunities in autonomous
surveillance, and equipment setup.

The Robot

Giraffe was designed for NPC Robotics to
showcase the benefits of a robot, equipped with a
self-assembling pole attached to it. Giraffe
contains a "ribbon-lift", which spools out three metal
ribbons, that form into a rigid, triangular pole,
capable of lifting a 50 pound load up to 15 feet in the
air. Ribbon lifts are also made in larger sizes
capable of supporting a 500 pound load 25 feet in the
air as well. This example shows a pan-tilt-zoom
camera attached to the pole, however, it could just as
easily be a lighting fixture, an antenna, a public
broadcast device, a weather measurement instrument, or
countless other ideas where a mobile, autonomous pole is
needed. Giraffe is equipped to automatic linear
actuators that self-level the robot before deploying the
pole on sloped terrain. Want to light a runway at
night, on the fly? Deploy a small fleet of these
robots, GPS equipped, with a runway light on top, and
send them off on their own to automatically position
themselves along the runway. Countless
possibilities for this technology.

IGOR stands for Indoor GPS OLogic Robot.
IGOR demonstrates OLogic's multi-vendor partnering, and
systems integration capability. IGOR utilizes an
ultrasonic-indoor-GPS system developed by SJAutomation,
remote tele-operation developed by ComCam International,
and OLogic robotic control system technology.
IGOR is capable of autonomously driving between indoor
waypoints, with no user intervention. A camera
mounted in the robot, delivers a wavelet-compressed live
video feed, to the end-user anywhere on the internet,
and allows them to control the robot, by commanding it
to drive to waypoints and take action. Since the
robot is totally autonomous, the end-user does not need
real-time control, therefore internet latencies do not
affect its operation. There are many of specific
applications for which this could be used from robotic
security, to office mail delivery, to warehouse
automation, to delivering patents or medications in a
hospital environment.

Robo-Magellan
is a robotics competition emphasizing autonomous
navigation and obstacle avoidance over varied, outdoor
terrain. Robots have three opportunities to
navigate from a starting point to an ending point and
are scored on time required to complete the course with
opportunities to lower the score based upon contacting
intermediate points marked by road cones.

The Robot

The robot must not be constructed in such a way
as to damage the environment or other robots. No
robot may weigh more than 50 pounds nor may it use an
internal or external combustion engine. The robot
must fit inside a 4'x4'x4' cube for the entire duration
of its run. Robots must be autonomous.
Remote control is not allowed with the exception of the
remote control safety switch(es).

• Developed as a proof-of-concept• Controlled using
Neurosky Sensors
• Wireless, wearable headset.•
Visual feedback lets you know when your brain is in the
right mindset for controlling the robot.
• Easy to use. • Made its debut at CES
2007.• Seen on on ABC 7 News and mentioned in
several press articles on devices demonstrating Neurosky
sensor technology.

•
State-of-the-art balancing software• Balancing is
accomplished using a small piezo-electric gyro combined
with the output of a two-axis accelerometer using a
Kalman filter.
• CPU is an inexpensive PIC18F6621•
High-resolution shaft encoders
• Remote Controlled using 2.4GHZ Radio• Custom designed board stack.• Inexpensive
parts. • Off-Road Tires for outdoor use

Flexo

Two-Wheeled
Balancing Robot

•
State-of-the-art balancing software• Balancing is
accomplished using a small piezo-electric gyro combined
with the output of a two-axis accelerometer using a
Kalman filter.
• CPU is an inexpensive PIC18F252•
High-resolution shaft encoders
• 20 fps computer vision system that follows any
red object.• Custom designed board stack.
• Can also be radio controlled• Inexpensive
parts. • Seen several times on G4/Tech-TV